Sports · Salah's scoring milestoneSalah Egypt goals record: Two late goals in 5-0 win, but totals conflictAired November 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTCWatchTranscript0:00Salah Egypt goals record.0:02Two late goals and five minus zero win, but totals conflict.0:07Mohammed Salah chipped a penalty to complete Egypt's five goal win.0:11His two late goals helped keep Egypt unbeaten and leading their Africa Cup of0:14Nations qualifying group, but his claim to the national scoring record is disputed.0:18Whether he has passed Hassam Hassan depends on which international goals count.0:22Salah headed Egypt's fourth goal at Cairo International Stadium in the eighty, four0:26minute.0:26Ibrahim Adil supplied the cross, and the captain finished close to goal at the far0:31post.0:31Egypt were already three goals ahead when he struck.0:34Five minutes into added time, Salah chipped his penalty down the middle, a finish0:38known as a Penenka.0:40Malawi's goalkeeper had fouled Hamza Abdelkarim, with the penalty awarded a minute0:44before the conversion.0:45Salah had missed a one on one chance in the seventy, one minute, but finished the0:50night with two goals.0:51Salah has seventy goals under one count ahead of Hassan's sixty, nine under another.0:56Both players have sixty-eight.0:57Those competing totals turn the same two finishes into different milestones.1:01Either sole possession of the record or a share of it.1:04In the seventy goal count, Salah began the match on sixty-eight.1:07His header drew him level with Hassan, and the penalty took him ahead.1:10That accounting gives Salah one hundred twenty-three appearances and Hassan one1:14hundred and seventy-six.1:15Salah is thirty-four and made his international debut in two thousand and eleven.1:19The competition organizer itself credits Salah with sixty-eight goals, calls him1:22Egypt's all-time top scorer, and says he's one behind Hassan.1:25Those statements conflict.1:27They leave the same basic problem unresolved, which total puts which player at the1:31top.1:31The disagreement reaches back to which international fixtures count, including games1:35against Swaziland, now Iswatini, and Zambia in two thousand and thirteen.1:39But removing two goals from Salah's total alone can't settle the comparison.1:42Hassan's benchmark also changes between sixty-nine and sixty-eight.1:46The underlying goal and appearance totals still need reconciling before Salah can be1:50called the undisputed outright record holder.1:52Subscribe to this channel as we follow the scoring dispute and Egypt's return match1:56against Malawi.1:57Ali Mar began his Egypt tenure with this five goal win six days after his2:01appointment on November seventh.2:02He replaced Hassan, who had guided Egypt to the last sixteen of the two thousand and2:06twenty-six World Cup before losing the coaching job.2:09So Hassan had just been dismissed before the night Salah was celebrated as passing2:12his scoring record.2:13Maher, a former Egypt and al-Ali forward, named his first squad less than twenty,2:18four hours after taking over.2:20He started Saleh, Omar Marmish, and Mahmoud Hassan Trezaget in attack, with Nasser2:25Mar in midfield.2:26Nasser Mar opened the scoring for Mohammed Hani's right-sided cross.2:29Marmish quickly doubled the lead after a mistake in Malawi's defense.2:32Hani then made it three before halftime, giving Egypt control long before Saleh's2:37late goals.2:38Nasser Mar's goal was his first for Egypt.2:40In his fifth appearance, Marmush reached fourteen goals in fifty, nine2:44internationals.2:45Malawi did threaten between those early goals and the third.2:48Mostafa Schaubert saved Richard Mbelou's shot in the twenty-two minute to keep2:52Egypt's lead intact.2:53Hani scored his first Egypt goal with a first-time strike from about twenty-five2:57meters.2:57Malawi had cleared a Trezaga cross, and Hani drove the ball into the top right3:02corner.3:02Two of Egypt's first three scorers had never scored internationally before.3:06The early goal timings differ slightly, with the opener listed in the sixth or3:09seventh minute and Haney's in the thirty-eight or thirty-nine.3:12The score order is consistent.3:14After the break, Ahmed Sayed Zizo had an effort saved in the fifty-minute.3:18Before Salah eventually supplied the fourth and fifth goals, Egypt led Group B with3:23seven points from three matches.3:24Angola had four before their next fixture.3:26Malawi stayed third with three, and South Sudan had none.3:30Egypt's lead was three points at that stage, with Angola still to play.3:34Egypt had drawn Nil in a home to Angola, then one five, nil away to South Sudan3:39under Hassan.3:40Malawi had beaten South Sudan two, one before losing three, one to Angola.3:44Angola's home match against South Sudan was scheduled for November14 in Luanda, so3:49those figures describe the position before that fixture.3:51Malawi host Egypt in Lilongui on Tuesday, November17 for match day four.3:56Egypt remain unbeaten, but still have qualification to secure.3:59The two thousand and twenty seven Africa Cup of Nations finals will be hosted by4:03Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.Story timelineHeyDex
